By the People: A History of the United States, 3rd Edition, AP Edition © 2024
James W. Fraser
By the People: A History of the United States, 3rd Edition, AP Edition, offers a dynamic learning experience tailored to today's students' reading, thinking, and learning styles. This edition presents a comprehensive history of the United States, highlighting the diverse groups that have shaped the nation we know today. Aligned with the College Board's AP US History curriculum and exam, the program has been carefully updated to incorporate recent historical events and research.
The updated content includes in-depth discussions on significant topics such as immigration, the Black Lives Matter movement, emerging religious tensions, the 2020 presidential election, the Covid-19 pandemic, and more. By addressing these contemporary issues, the program aims to engage students in historical inquiry and encourage critical thinking. Through its integrated social and political history narrative, By the People sparks students' curiosity and helps them develop a deeper understanding of the forces that have shaped American society.
By the People enhances the mission of the AP program through the following key features:
- Continuity and Change: The program organizes historical events in a way that illuminates the unfolding of history over time and provides insights into how individuals experienced different eras.
- Narrative Approach: By employing a narrative style, By the People presents the essential core content of U.S. history, while incorporating captivating stories that allow students to delve deeper into specific aspects and engage in critical reflection.
- Global Perspective: The program explores U.S. history by examining the relationship between the United States and the rest of the world. It highlights how the American experience has influenced other nations and cultures, as well as how these external influences have shaped the United States. This includes studying the impact of immigration, the global exchange of ideas through media and commerce, and official foreign policies.
- Emphasis on Diversity: By recognizing the diversity of the American people as a fundamental aspect of the nation's history, By the People promotes a comprehensive understanding of the United States and its cultural mosaic.
- Comprehensive AP Content: By integrating expansive AP content and pedagogy, the program ensures that students are well-prepared for the AP exam and provides them with the necessary skills and knowledge for success in college-level history courses.
- Quizzing opportunities are strategically placed throughout Revel to allow students to assess their understanding before moving forward in their learning journey.
- Revel offers flexible reading and studying options, allowing students to highlight, take notes, and access a glossary in a way that suits their preferences. Educators can also provide additional notes for students, including helpful reminders and study tips.
- With superior assignability and tracking tools, such as the assignment calendar and performance dashboard, educators can effectively monitor student progress to ensure reading completion and comprehension of core concepts.
- Engaging features like American Voice, Thinking Historically, in-textbook Explorer activities, and captivating art and illustrations encourage students to actively participate in historical inquiry.
- Chapter learning objectives, quick review questions, and an extensive set of end-of-chapter review questions provide a clear framework to guide students as they progress through the material.
- For K-12 institutions, A History of the United States, 3rd Edition, AP Edition, is available through Institutional Licensing. This allows students to access the content without the need for individual access codes.
PART 1: CONTACT AND EXPLORATION, 1491–1607
1. The World Before 1492
2. First Encounters, First Conquests, 1492–1607
PART 2: SETTLEMENTS OLD AND NEW, 1607–1754
1. Settlements, Alliances, and Resistance, 1607–1718
2. Creating the Culture of British North America, 1689–1754
PART 3: A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM—CREATING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1754–1800
1. The Making of a Revolution, 1754–1783
2. Creating a Nation, 1783–1789
3. Practicing Democracy, 1789–1800
PART 4: CRAFTING A NATION, PEOPLE, LAND, AND A NATIONAL IDENTITY, 1800–1848
1. Creating a New People, Expanding the Country, 1801–1823
2. New Industries, New Politics, 1815–1828
3. Democracy in the Age of Andrew Jackson, 1828–1844
4. Manifest Destiny: Expanding the Nation, 1830–1853
PART 5: EXPANSION, SEPARATION, AND A NEW UNION, 1844–1877
1. Living in a Nation of Changing Lands, Changing Faces, Changing Expectations, 1831–1854
2. The Politics of Separation, 1850–1861
3. And the War Came: The Civil War, 1861–1865
4. Reconstruction, 1865–1877
PART 6: BECOMING AN INDUSTRIAL WORLD POWER—COSTS, BENEFITS, AND RESPONSES, 1865–1914
1. Conflict in the West, 1865–1912
2. The Gilded Age: Building a Technological and Industrial Giant and a New Social Order, 1876–1913
3. Responses to Industrialism, Responses to Change, 1877–1914
4. Progressive Movements, Progressive Politics, 1879–1917
PART 7: WAR, PROSPERITY, AND DEPRESSION, 1890–1945
1. Foreign Policy and War in a Progressive Era, 1890–1919
2. A Unique, Prosperous, and Discontented Time, 1919–1929
3. Living in Hard Times, 1929–1939
4. Living in a World at War, 1939–1945
PART 8: FEARS, JOYS, AND LIMITS, 1945–1980
1. The World the War Created, 1945–1952
2. Complacency and Change, 1952–1965
3. Lives Changed, 1961–1968
4. Rights, Reaction, and Limits, 1968–1980
PART 9: CERTAINTY, UNCERTAINTY, AND NEW BEGINNINGS, 1980 TO THE PRESENT
1. The Reagan Revolution, 1980–1989
2. A New World Order, 1989–2001
3. New Times, New Problems, New Faces, 2001–2016
4. A Troubled and Divided Nation, 2017
James W. Fraser
New York University
James W. Fraser is Professor of History and Education at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. His teaching includes a survey course in U.S. History for future Social Studies teachers and courses in the History of American Education, Religion & Public Education, and Inquiries into Teaching and Learning. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Dr. Fraser is the President of the History of Education Society and a former member of the Editorial Board of the History of Education Quarterly. He served as Senior Vice President for Programs at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey, from 2008 to 2012. He has also served as NYU liaison to the New Design High School, a public high school in New York’s Lower East Side, and to Facing History and Ourselves.
Before coming to New York University, Dr. Fraser taught in the Department of History and the program in education at Northeastern University in Boston, where he was the founding dean of Northeastern’s School of Education. He was also a member and chair of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Education Deans Council, the Boston School Committee Nominating Committee, and other boards. He was a lecturer in the Program in Religion and Secondary Education at the Harvard University Divinity School from 1997 to 2004. He has taught at Lesley University; University of Massachusetts, Boston; Boston University; and Public School 76 Manhattan. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and was pastor of Grace Church in East Boston, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2006.
In addition to By the People, Dr. Fraser is the author or editor of twelve books including The School in the United States: A Documentary History. He lives in New York City with his wife Katherine Hanson and their dog, Pebble.
This program is available in a variety of formats. You can review the individual prices for each ISBN in our catalog. All access codes are for use by 1 student, for 1 course, for up to 1 year, and are non-transferable.
| Format | ISBN-13 |
|---|---|
| Student edition with Revel institutional licensing (up to 6-year access) |
9780137892877 |
| Student edition with Revel institutional licensing (up to 6-year access) with Test Prep Workbook |
9780137916054 |
| Annotated teacher’s edition | 9780137892891 |
| Test prep workbook for AP 3rd edition | 9780137892914 |
| Historical Practices, Skills, and Course Themes Workbook for AP® United States History | 9780137892938 |
| Institutional licensing (1-year access) | 9780137892693 |
| Institutional licensing (6-year access) | 9780137892716 |
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